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Have the onions and artichokes seeds started under lights a month ago.
Trying Roselle shrubs again this year (iffy things) and have some alpine strawberry seedlings up.
Next weekend is the eggplant, broccoli and cabbage seeds.
'maters don't get started until mid-March.

If we are to have another contest inÖour national existence I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between patriotism & intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition & ignorance on the otherÖ
~ President Ulysses S. Grant

Same, mid March. Started mine from seed in the green house. Weíll see what happens. In the past I havenít had much luck with tomato seed. They come up and die. If they all make it Iíll have a hundred plants. lol

New here, just planted a few tomatoes earlier this morning. I'll plant a few more tomorrow, I am also planning to clean a bit and put some things on a cabinet. Thankfully I just bought a folding wheelbarrow https://gardeningfacts.org/best-whee...arrow-reviews/ that will help me a lot in lifting so much pieces of stuff.

In 2-3 weeks Iím going to have an estimated 1000 potatoes. I can maybe give half to family, friends and neighbors. That still leaves a lot to put up. Do to the high water table we donít have a basement or root cellar. I was thinking about trying the trash can storage for some, just to see if it works. The rest I need to can and/or freeze. Canning would be labor intensive and pricey for tatters with the jars and lids. So, Iím thinking about making bags of French fries and some grated for hash browns for freezing. I donít have a dehydrator and not keen on running the oven for this. Any thoughts or other ideas?

1,000 potatoes is not really that much, perhaps 100 lbs or so. If you lay them in the sun to dry, inspect them and eat the damaged ones quickly, and keep them cool and dry 100 pounds should be eaten up pretty quickly.

Probably freezing what you can not eat within a couple of months is the best choice of all the storage methods.

I have been on a carb free diet for years but I understand that other folks eat a lot of carbs when they are available. Two people eating two pounds of spuds, baked, boiled, smashed or fried each day will go through 100 pounds of potatoes before they can rot anyway.

If you eat just one pound the supply will probably be gone within 2-3 months so you could keep them in any dry place out of the sunlight. Potatoes last a long time if you don't get them wet and sprout them, even then you can remove the sprouts and eat them anyway.